Small Heath Yacht Club was founded by a group of folks (probably hippies) on the small Greek island of Alonissos in 1990. Their common interest of drinking & sailing got them into all sorts of saft conversation. The crux of it was that, as they were all from land locked Birmingham they needed a Yacht club located somewhere that there could never ever be one. And hence SHYC was conceived. Whilst some of you that don’t do BOATS may think, 'what's the point' .I must tell you one of the most gratifying things is to be seen wearing an SHYC logo by an Ex-Brummie/Ex-Pat whilst on Holiday, they will come and hug and kiss you and buy your beer and be totally amazed when you tell them that, due to global warming, Small Heath is now submerged under a lake (a bit like Windermere). And that's where the clubhouse is.  

Sadly most of the Members have left the salubrious surroundings of the Small Heath area and now live in a wretched part of the west midlands know as "Redditch on Sea" and often rub shoulders with the intellectually depraved "Bromsgrove Boaters" these are just people that don't laugh or drink enough to join the SHYC and spend most of their weekends stuck in some lonely creek on the south coast of England, still perhaps it's better than Redditch.

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